The 14 tracks on "Rebel Soul" were recorded at Kid Rock's home studio in Clarkston and at a makeshift studio nearby.

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With construction under way on a new studio at Rock's Clarkston property, recording sessions began at a nearby rehearsal space in the spring. It proved productive: Those makeshift sessions wound up spawning more than half of the album's tracks. In June, with the new facility finished, Rock and his team moved back to his place, logging 14-hour days as they hit the album's homestretch.

The new studio was designed by East Lansing's Glenn Brown, an acoustics expert responsible for some of Michigan's most prominent recording ...